Durban - The original driver of the bus that crashed after the Reed Dance, killing seven maidens ... “The weather was clear and there was no rain,” said Mchunu. He believed speed might have ...

Purists still insist on an artistic division between modern dance and ballet ... He composed dances to the sound of rain, and once fashioned a piece in which a couple stood stock-still for ...

Every September – the start of southern hemisphere spring, tens of thousands of women, known locally as maidens, participate in the “reed dance” in KwaZulu-Natal province which opens into ...

In the morning, the women -- referred to as maidens -- marched to the royal residence in Mbangweni, in the south of the country, as part of the traditional Umhlanga or Reed Dance. In a rite of ...